Random chat spring 2009

Tessa is still Pling and doing great during the day for the most part but we are still doing fitted and wool for outings as a just in case kwim. Night time hasn`t really started yet but I am not pushing it either.

We did purchase a new car (crossover) yesterday YAY we got a 2009 Nissan Merono in a dark blue color and I love it so much bigger than my car was and the double stroller fits and or the wagon easily with room to spair. The girls really seem to like it as well.

DH also got the new heating eliment for our dryer put in (thank goodness) so I have my dryer back YAY.

Other than that I don`t have much else going on until Katelin`s birthday in May :) hard to believe she is going to be 4 years old this year.

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Laura, if you want to add me to your email list, it's thevioletbee on gmail

I understand how you feel, I really do. I'm feeling better the last few days than I had been feeling and have been really enjoying life with just one child, so I'm not in a huge hurry, but I'm anxious to have the baby here at the same time. Not knowing when is driving me nuts, so when I go into labor, at least that will take care of that. I keep thinking, hmm, do I want to plan on doing this or that next week or not? I hate having things so up in the air.

I'll try to post an update on my blog soon after this kiddo is born. thevioletbee.blogspot.com

Jane, wow, 3 months already! And IDK what happened with the photos, but it doesn't look like you copied the complete URL.

kc - don't feel bad about the money. You are 7 months pregnant, that should be worth a little extra ;)

anne - yeah today I was kind of bored and was thinking hmm, maybe baby should come right now, so we can have a little excitement going on. :)

jane - I managed to see some pics and they are so cute!

stacy - yeah the swine flu is around us too. scary stuff.

So dh's school district is reducing the number of teachers drastically so they terminated everyone with less than 5 yrs experience (dh will have 5 yrs the end of the school year) and then they are rehiring an unknown number starting next week. Basically they are shuffling everyone around in the district and laying off a ton of teachers. Its probable that dh will keep his job as he teaches AP Chem and there is only one teacher in the district who has more experience than him and is qualified to teach AP Chem, but it is still worrisome.

They haven't found anyone to replace me at my work yet, and I got a handful of emails from my boss today asking me questions, so I could probably get my job back, but I really don't want to. Ugh. So hopefully everything works out, but even so, the class sizes are going to be huge next year which is stressful for the teachers.

I cleaned my sewing room today. It was a disaster. I threw out a ton of teeny tiny fabric scraps that I was keeping for who knows what reason.

Well I guess I should go put Selena to bed, she took a long late nap so I have a feeling it'll be a challenge.

My water broke around 8:45 and Nate was born at 6:36 p.m. No pain meds til the advil afterwards. DH has been having a blast telling everyone how I pushed him out on the bathroom floor.

The hospital does one-time use labor tubs that you keep and used their last ones yesterday. I was so disappointed I didn't get to labor in one because I know it would have really helped. Instead I spent a few hours in the shower, mostly on the birth ball in the shower, aiming hot water at ouchy spots with one or two people crammed into the bathroom with me.

I will try again soon w/ the pics I just don't want to take the time right now. We have a private school in our county that has a confirmed case of swine flu & they are closed for 2 weeks. I really hope they don't cancel the public schools.

Laura Ihope everything works out for your husband. I know that has to be stressful and the large classes will be hard for the remaining teachers. How are you feeling?

KC you are busy as always, enjoy the $ your time is valuable remember that. How are you feeling? You are so close too.

I wasn't suppose to go into daycare until 9 yesterday, I told her I was up if she needed me earlier (this was at 6am) well I got a call at 6:30 from her and she asked me to come in b/c she was soaking through 2 pads (wearing them together) every 1.5 hours. So she needed to go to the hosipital (which by this time the bleeding shouldn't be this bad...she had a d&c and something else done) well she found out yesterday that she has Uterine Cancer (Endometriotic Cancer) which if you have cancer in the uterus this is the kind you want to have b/c it's the less aggressive and will stay confined to the uterus. She is doing pretty good w/ the news. She has a positive attitude. They will porbably end up taking her uterus out (partial hysterectomy) and she will be out of work for 6 weeks. Poor woman she is soul bread maker w/ daycare (her husband carries the insurance). I know she is more than willing to let me help her out (but also knows that I won't be able to), but the time frame looks impossible (since I'm due in 7.5 weeks), I feel really bad, but I know I won't be of much help to her. She won't have surgery right away they said this could be something that she has had for months or even years and just never got detected until this surgery.

Other than that (which like I said she is doing really well and her attitude is positive she is doing good). I find out today how her boys (ages 12, 10, & 8) took it and also her dh (she didn't tell him over the phone yesterday).

I've been feeling pretty good, I think baby's head is down since I feel more pressure when I stand up. I remember this not happening quite this soon with A I was closer to 38-39 weeks or maybe she was I just didn't have as much pressure. We leave tomorrow to go to my in-laws house for Thursday-Sat. My BIL & his wife are graduating from college and my SIL is graduating from high school (dh is preaching at this). Then Saturday my MIL wants me to go to the mother-daughter banquet w/ her at her church (she is REALLY excited b/c her Daughter from NC will be plus her daughter that just graduated, than my BIL wife and I will all be able to attend). I'm looking forward to spending time with all of them!! We all knew each other from college since we all attend at the same time. DH was a grad student, I was a 2nd semester senior (we were married at the time) SIL was a junior her husband (not at the time) was a junior and BIL and his (now) wife were Freshmen. So we got to know each other pretty good and we had them over to our house frequently. I love my in-laws and can't wait to see them.

Wow another long one...lol...it's my quiet time no one is up yet. :)

I'll close this up now since many of you are busy also and won't have time to read through it all...lol! :D

Have a great day ladies! Hope you have a good weekend, not sure if I'll get on b4 I leave.

KC- you are a busy woman! dont forget to take a load off every so often- you deserve it!!! also- i'll keep your friend in my thoughts and prayers- its great that she has a positive look on it right now, im sure she'll need your support (even if just an ear to listen) over the next few months.

ive got to figure out how to add pics soon--- plus i really need to take more pics of caitlyn, there never seems to be enough hours in the day.

my cousin is due mid-june and i still havent finished all the things that i want to send to her (boppy covers,etc) but i really really need to make a new diaper cover or two for caitlyn since the nb size ones are waaay too small at this point!

we have friends from birmingham coming in this weekend, and im really looking forard to it- of all the people we've met since moving to nashville, theyre our closest friends, but they moved last year.

ok, gtg- need to get some work done so i can feed caitlyn at 1:30-- she's still not taking a bottle- i swear dumping my milk every night makes me cry :( i think her solution is to just wake up more at night- which is killing me- when she started daycare she would just get up once a night, now we're at three times a night- but since im pumping i dont get a break during the day, oh well....

btw- i just realized that i havent updated on edison in ages- he's doing great ,he s such a wonderful big brother- still PLing, and such a chatterbox now.